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So there's a wagon with two wheels, she has problems balancing but it can be done. However every time the load changes a new balancing act is required. More often than not the wagon is either ass down or tits down, neither is very attractive and leaves the wagon open to use at either end.

Then there's the wheel, I mean not one of the ordered pair that are inherent to the wagon, but the odd wheel, the lonely wheel with no wagon. He has trouble just standing alone and is at it's best when rolling along. The faster it rolls the more stable it becomes, yet in it's stability it unwittingly losses control and becomes less able to direct itself.

Thus the wheel and the wagon are both contray and complimentary; the later has lack of direction and yet is plainly stable, whereas the wheel so able to have direction but such is reciprical to it's stabily. Of course there are instances of the wagon and the wheel with direction and stabilty as in the segway and unicycle, but each is topped by a directional spin and wobble.

The spinning top comes to mind only in it's similarity to the wheel that it's stability is directly related to it's speed of movement, which is this case is rotation on it's axis. Although no more than a toy, a playful reminder of self absorbtion, like the wheel the top can be used to stabise a wagon, yet it adds nothing to direction.

Now the stories of the wagons with three wheels is diverse for each three wheeler travels it's own sweet or sour direction, not confined to the tracks required by a wagon with spinning top.

Whereas the direction set by the third wheel may be deemed undoutdedly devious, the wagon is largely liable for the load. Large or small is not the primary issue, but both balance and weight are. For the directional wheel losses control in inverse proportion to the weight. And of course if the wagon becomes ass heavy and tips back then the extra wheel is defunct. If the load is too forward and demanding the direction is grounded and the front wheel digs in. So there has to be some effective control of the load by the third wheel, something the wagon finds hard to swallow.

What keeps the wheel to the wagon is friction and part of that is the sheer weight of the wagon, yet before such intimate bonding there has to be some force that brings them into proximity, that of attraction and repulsion.

Attraction is in the direction of the void. No matter where you want to go you can only go where there is space to park, the attraction of the emptiness. This is not the same as the apparent attraction of opposites or that birds of a feather flock together, this is a basic principal underlying attraction, birds to food and the filling of wagons.

It is arguable that a wagon needs no destination and can be self fulfling, but then it would be a mere container, that could be moved, a skip. A wagon has more awareness than a container as it anticipates movement and is keen to shunted around. The attraction is the avoidence of the numbness of being filled with the same old crap. Better a ship be that can ply a variety of good and evil; at least that is the draw, the illusion, that by being on the move it's possible to avoid at least some of the crap.

And so we value the singlemindedness of the wheel, the promise of freedom, and are all to ready to blind ourselves to the ineviatble lack of stability and bogging down in the mire or desire.